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From: New Haven, CT USA
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posted 06-15-2011 04:50 AM               

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Just wondering if any fellow cS members are attending the reception and dinner at the National Football Foundation dinner with Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, and Jerry Ross. Looks like I am going to make the trip.

Armstrong is the only moonwalker I have never met and it looks like this is a good opportunity.

If other folks from this site will be there I look forward to meeting.

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Posts: 287
From: New Haven, CT USA
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 06-18-2011 08:02 AM               

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Great event. I am so glad I made the trip. It was an honor to meet Armstrong so I have now met all 12 men who walked on the Moon. I got a look at the outside of the Neil Armstrong Engineering Building too. Nice facility, as is the whole Purdue campus.

After my TSA pat down at Indianapolis airport yesterday I noticed Gene Cernan standing next to me after he went through the line too. What a coincidence. I shook his hand again and we chatted a little about the event the night before. He's a great American.

It was a pleasure also to meet fellow cS member Astro-nut. He has an impressive collection of photos of himself with many astronauts. It was good having a fellow space enthusiast to talk to since we had a bit of wait in the line to get our pictures taken with Armstrong, Cernan, and Jerry Ross.